British Education

Index

This short introduction to the British Education Index

uses a simple example to show how you can combine

keywords to search for and access journal articles.

It includes animation so is best seen as a slide show.

British Education Index

• British Education Index (BEI) is one of several specialist education databases available to you at SHU

• Information databases monitor what is published about a particular subject. you can search BEI to find Journal articles on all aspects of education.

• We will be working to improve this guide or offer a suitable alternative. There is a link for your feedback in the final slide.

Finding Databases

Under Social Sciences

choose Education to see

the Education and Autism

guide.

In the Library Gateway

Click on Subject guides

The main education

Databases are listed

under Journals.

Click on Journals and

then click on the

database title to open

British Education Index

Journals

BEI

• Access to BEI is through EBSCO Host. EBSCO provide access to a wide range of information services including several other education databases which can be searched in a similar way.

• We will look for keywords Autism and Inclusion

You can choose to limit

your search results.

Options include date,

peer reviewed and

educational level.

When you are

ready click

The database

opens with the

Advanced Search

form. This is as

easy to use as

the Basic Search.

Type Autism and

Inclusion into the

search boxes.

Autism

Inclusion

This search has

produced 35 results

which look useful for

our topic, but we may

be able to find more.

One way to do this is

to think about our

search terms.

To the left of the results

you can see options to

refine your search and

some information

about your search

results.

Scroll down to look at

the Subject list

Subject

SubjectsThe words in the subject list are

found in subject headings from the

search results. The more often a

term appears in the results the

higher up the list it will be.

Autism is at the top of the list.

Inclusion is not in the list but instead

we can see inclusive. So we can

search for inclusive as well as,

inclusion. To see the full list of

subjects click on Show More.

If we wanted to narrow our search

we could use the check boxes on

the list, but with only 35 results this

is probably not a good idea.

Instead we can do a new search

using the information we have

gained from looking at the list.

Click for more

about Subjects

Click on Advanced

Search to start a new

search and change

the second line of the

search so that it

reads inclusion OR

inclusive, and click

For more information

about combining

keywords see

Re: SEARCH

Autism

inclusion OR inclusive

The new search produced 75

results. If you want to know

more about an article click on

the title or the detail icon:

To read an article click on

If the article is available online

a page will open with the

abstract or full text. If only the

abstract is shown there will be

a further link to the full text.

Sometimes you will see the

journal home page from which

you can browse to the article.

Finding articles from the results

If no full text is available you will see

the SHU Links page.

From the SHU Links page you can:

• Check to see if we have a print

copy in the learning centre

• Order a copy from our Document

Supply service

• Contact us to report a problem or

ask for help

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Contact

Help

• We hope this has been useful. You can contact the learning centre for further help:

– Help Desk: opening hours

– Telephone: 0114 225 3333 (24 hours)

– Email: learning.centre@shu.ac.uk

– Subject guide: Education and Autism

– Support for academic skills

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